What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Man being reasonable must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication; Glory, the grape, love, gold - in these are sunk - The hopes of all men and of every nation